Feeling victimized in my job and don't want to go in......Help!

ILW

Just ignore it, she sounds an idiot and is not actually causing you any harm.

cavework

The person making the complaints is not your supervisor. Obviously your supervisor dealing with these complaints prefers to let this continue rather than doing their flippin job and telling this person they are becoming a PIA with their unfounded complaints.
As someone has said , ignore it and next time it happens tell your supervisor to bring her into the office and to let her voice her complaints in front of you.
As for the same name thing ..... so what?

ohreally

sarah7610 wrote: »

I have phoned my manager this morning and told him I am putting in a grievance

Which manager, the one with whom your raising the grievance or the manager who hears the grievance?

sarah7610 wrote: »

I have already done the letter from a template I found on the net

Would you care to outline your case?

still_searching

I had a very similar issue at the beginning of the year and it's not as easy as to "just ignore it". It started with one older, permanent member of staff taking a disliking to me, gossiping about it with her group of clingons during the day and at breaks, getting people on side. At first I fought back and refused to be called a liar for whatever they were complaining about (usually telling late-starting boss that I had been late or done something wrong, petty things). I was getting pulled aside twice a week by my manager who just was not man enough to stand up to these wretched individuals. Other long-serving members of staff told me that they had been through similar issues with the same group of women, and had the same reaction from my boss - he was a lovely guy, but just not cut out for being in charge.

I felt like I was constantly walking on eggshells, became totally paranoid and dreaded the thought of going into work every day knowing there was a real possibility that I was going to be accused of something else. It actually made me really, really ill, to a point where by the time they finally pushed me out I couldn't have been more joyous that I would finally be rid of them - and they knew it! I had support from my team members & made it very clear that I was glad to be going. They really were a nasty lot, and I genuinely loved my job before all of this happened and in the end they just ruined it completely for me. As for unions, grievances etc I had no leg to stand on as my manager, although sympathetic towards me and admitting he had no issues with me, was simply unable to stand up to these people and had been for a while. As a long-term temp, I was made to believe that I was a lesser member of staff despite doing double the output of these wasters, who were being paid ridiculous amounts in a government-based office, had been for 20-odd years, and couldn't even use a &*($£" keyboard! In an office role!!!

Sooner or later we got a new stand-in team leader, who was very friendly with these 'people', and she made it all so much worse. I eventually lost my temper & said that if everything about me was that bad - my performance, timekeeping, the lot - and if I was that easy to just let go, then surely they would have just done so a LONG time ago instead of complaining about me bi-weekly for 6 whole bloody months. Think she was taken aback that I'd eventually had enough of biting my tongue & taking it, and instead decided to defend myself for once - after all, no-one else was going to do it for me. I'd complained to agency as a last resort, in tears asking for a move to a different section away from these bullies, and the only way they could do that was for me to get myself sacked & then offered a new contract. An absolute joke & I can't believe in this day & age that so many people are the victim of bullying in the workplace by horrid people. It really does feel like school all over again!

I appreciate that this is an old thread, but I wonder if you ever did manage to get it sorted, and if so, what was the outcome? I did everything that I possibly could in my situation, and eventually had to deliberately sabotage myself to get myself sacked - despite my boss saying I was one of his best employees, and certainly much better than half of the other permanent halfwits. I don't think I could've done anything differently, but I'd feel better knowing that other people have had their disputes sorted accordingly by someone with a bit of a backbone!! Hope all went well